Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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Mary Oliver 98
American writer 1935–2019Related quotes
“I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 91
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Context: Of course, the worst of all lives is the vicious life; the life of a man who becomes a positive addition to the forces of evil in a community. Next to that and when I am speaking to people who, by birth and training and standing, ought to amount to a great deal, I have a right to say only second to it in criminality comes the life of mere vapid ease, the ignoble life of a man who desires nothing from his years but that they shall be led with the least effort, the least trouble, the greatest amount of physical enjoyment or intellectual enjoyment of a mere dilettante type. The life that is worth living, and the only life that is worth living, is the life of effort, the life of effort to attain what is worth striving for.
“Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“… [A]nything worth dying for… is certainly worth living for.”
Joseph Heller
book
Catch-22
Source: Catch-22
“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”
Elisabeth Elliot
(1926–2015) American missionary
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862).